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PelicanLahontan Audubon Society • P.O. Box 2304 • Reno, Nevada 89505 • www.nevadaaudubon.org • 775-324-BIRD

Mission statement: To preserve and improve the remaining habitat of birds and other wildlife, restore historical habitat, and educate

the public, with emphasis on children, providing vision to all about our unique Nevada environments.

MONTHLY MEETINGSDate: Fourth Tuesday of the month

Time: Social at 6:30 p.m. Program starts at 7 p.m.

Location: South Valleys Library

15650A Wedge Parkway, Reno

Exterior door, west side of building

Directions to South Valleys Library: Take Hwy 395 to the Mt. Rose Hwy. Head west

on the Mt. Rose Hwy and take the first right turn onto Wedge Parkway, just past Raleyʼs

shopping center. Go about one mile on Wedge Parkway and look for the boldly de-

signed, mustard yellow library on the right.

MAY PROGRAM

May 24 -- “Birding Wild Nevada” -- Nancy Bish and Jane Thompson

Nancy Bish and Jane Thompson will recount their adventures searching the remot

reaches of Nevada looking for birds. Their ongoing treks on snowshoes or backpacking

have yielded life lists of over 300 species for both of these women. In a slide presentation

Nancy and Jane will share with us their adventures in some of Nevada’s wild places

where we will see seldom-used roads and trails from northern and central Nevada’s Grea

Basin Desert and mountain ranges to southern Nevada’s Mojave Desert. After viewing

breathtaking landscapes and some of the bird species that reside there, you too will be

tempted to head off Nevada’s beaten paths. Nancy co-authored the Birds of Lake Tahoe

Basin Checklist and works as a wildlife biologist when she isn’t birding.

MAY/JUNE 2005

vol. 42, no. 5

Inside This Issue

1 Monthly Meetings

2 Spring Wings

3 Important Bird Areas

4 Field Trips

5 Conservation Corner

6 Birds In Town

7 LAS Sales

Membership

Submissions for the July/August issue

are due June 1, 2005 There are no LAS meetings during the summer months. The nextmeeting will Tuesday, Sept. 27.

LAS ELECTIONSThe next LAS elections will be held during the May general meeting on Tuesday, May 24. Nominations are now being accepted for any

of the officer positions including President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Recording Secretary. These are all one year terms. Also, two

trustee seats, (2 and 4), have come to term. Seat #2 is currently held by Judy Kretzer while #4 is held by Jim Lytle. Nominations for these

seats are also being accepted. The term for trustees is three years. You may nominate yourself or any LAS member in good standing

subject to their acceptance of the nomination, to any of the positions. The Nomination Committee encourages you to get

involved and keep this a democratic process. Contact either Alan Gubanich, 784-6652 / [email protected] or Jim Lytle, 775 577-9641

/ [email protected] with any questions or nominations.



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SUBSCRIPTIONS

The Pelican is the official newsletter of the Lahontan AudubonSociety and is published six times annually. Subscriptions are

paid for as part of the dues of LAS or the National Audubon

Society. LAS welcomes gifts, donations, and bequests in

general, or gifts in honor or memory of relatives and friends.

Such donations will be used as specified or, if unspecified, will

be used to support LAS education and conservation projects.

All donations are tax deductible.

WHERE TO WRITE:Keep conservation to the forefront. Write your elected officials and

tell them how you feel:

Senator Harry Reid Senator John Ensign

400 S. Virginia St. #902 400 S. Virginia St. #738

Reno, NV 89501 Reno, NV 89501

Reno phone: 686-5750 Reno phone: 686-5770

Representative Jim Gibbons Governor Kenny Guinn

400 S. Virginia St. #502 Executive Chambers

Reno, NV 89501 Capitol Complex

Reno phone: 686-5760 Carson City, NV 89710

Eighth Annual Spring

Wings Festival in Fallon

May 13-15, 2005

A celebration of the songbirds,

shorebirds, and waterfowl returning to

the Lahontan Valley from all over the

western world, this yearʼs Spring Wings

Festival will offer several new field

trips including a tour of one of the local

marshes by air boat. Another will include

an evening of “bug lighting” with John

Acorn, our featured guest speaker at the

Friday night banquet. John Acorn, The

Nature Nut, is a much sought after nature

festival entertainer. His childrenʼs show

“The Nature Nut” ran for many years on

the Animal Planet channel. A hit with

adults as well as children, John sings,

teaches, and makes us laugh!

After Saturdayʼs field trips there willbe a light buffet dinner and talks by local

artist Ray Nelson, past president of LAS

and this yearʼs Featured Festival Artist,

and Point Reyes Naturalist/Storyteller,

Ane Rovetta. Ray will present birding

through the eyes of an artist. Ane will

illuminate the ancient myths and cultural

significance of birds and the natural

world. The very popular Bat Tours and

Owl Prowl will follow the buffet and

talks.

In line with this yearʼs theme, “Kids

and Nature,” we are increasing theactivities we offer for kids of all ages.

Come and help us celebrate spring

migration and nature in the Lahontan

Valley. Please visit our website for more

information: www.springwings.org or

call 775-428-6452.

A few years, ago as I was returning

from the Spring Wings Festival in

Fallon, I noticed a large plume of smoke

rising over Lake Lahontan. The startling

billow of smoke turned into a huge

flock of American White Pelicans risingeffortlessly on strong thermals.

Recently Oxbow Nature Study Area,

one mile from downtown Reno, was

named by Travelocity as one of the

top ten local favorites for Nevada in

Travelocityʼs 2005 “Local Secrets, Big

Finds SM” poll, selected from more than

30,000 nominations from across the U.S.

The Oxbow Nature Study Area is a part-

nership between the Nevada Department

of Wildlife and the City of Reno Parks

Department.

In LASʼ file on Oxbow, I found a letterdated April 12, 1993, to then LAS Presi-

dent Ken Pulver from the then Director

of the Nevada Department of Wildlife

(NDOW) responding to a very respect-

able donation from LAS as base funding

for developing a continuous supply of

water to the pond area. Later there is

another letter from a well-known local

conservationist on behalf of the Nevada

Board of Wildlife Commissioners: “... the

Division of Wildlife relies upon sports-

men contributions through licenses and

tags and gifts and grants.... Lahontan

Audubon Societyʼs donation ... was the

first significant contribution of a nonhunt-

ing organization.”

This spring NDOW embarked on a

daunting project, the development of a

Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation

Strategy (CWCS) to conserve all wildlife

in the state over the next 10 years. The

effort is headed by Larry Neel NDOW

Staff Specialist and LAS member. The

scope of wildlife conservation has now

expanded in this and other states beyond

game species to address the whole, inter-

related spectrum of species prioritizedby most urgent need. Don McIvor, LAS

Director of Bird Conservation, has been

involved in the developmental stages of

the CWCS. The Nature Conservancy and

the Nevada Natural Heritage Program

are collaborating with NDOW on this.

LAS, identified as a partner in wildlife

conservation, was invited to sit down

and discuss the CWCS in its formative

stage. LAS Conservation Committee (Ali

Chaney, Nancy Bish, Bob Goodman, Jim

Lytle) and I attended an early and very

productive workshop preceding publicopen houses on the CWCS.

For the bird species of concern, the

CWCS is drawing upon data developed

by the Partners in Flight project on mi-

gratory birds, Great Basin Bird Observa-

toryʼs Breeding Bird Atlas and ongoing

monitoring projects, and Donʼs data from

the Important Birds Areas program. Im-

pressive study has been accomplished in

the state in the last few years. We are now

moving to the next step: effective, on-the-

ground conservation. Many significant ef-forts are converging into a unified whole,

like a marvelously choreographed flock

of pelicans rising, rising on the thermals.

Karen L. Kish

DONORSWe wish to acknowledge an additional donor to the 2004 Fund Drive at the American

Avocet ($50 - $99) level: Thank you, Kathy Oakes.

FROM THE PRESIDENTʼS PERCH:Conservation Collaboration, Think Thermals



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IMPORTANT BIRD AREAS PROGRAMDon McIvor

775-882-2597

[email protected]

Nevadaʼs Important Bird Areas

Exploring Franklin Lake

In the next several issues of The Pelican I would like to take the opportunity

to explore some of Nevadaʼs IBAs. I

thought about approaching this task

alphabetically, in which case we might

never get to talk about Walker Lake

IBA, one of Nevadaʼs most threatened. I

also thought about a regional approach,

but figured weʼd never get to the corner

of the state opposite the one in which

Iʼd start that task. Then I chucked all the

logical approaches and picked Franklin

Lake IBA for a much more practical

reason.

Franklin Lake presents one of the true

paradoxes of the Great Basin Desert.

In wet years the site brims with water-

birds in mind-boggling abundance. In

dry years the site is a pasture, and if

you look around and count every bird

of every species, you quickly find that

they are outnumbered by cattle. The dry

years far exceed the wet, and the more

common experience involves standing

at the visitorʼs parking area and scratch-

ing your head, feeling certain youʼvebeen duped in the best tradition of a

greenhorn prospector. But the wild ride

from lavish abundance to bewildering

impoverishment is the typical pattern of

the desert.

At 12,323 acres, Franklin Lake is

actually one of our smaller IBAs.

The lake sits just north of Ruby Lake

NWR (IBA) in the Ruby Valley in

Elko County. Although birds probably

perceive this entire valley as one site

during wet years, the IBA Technical Ad-

visory Committee saw two reasons tokeep these IBAs distinct. Because Ruby

Lake has more than 200 springs, it pro-

vides surface water, even in dry years.

Franklin Lake cannot boast the same,

and so the two areas are quite different

hydrologically and in the availability of

resources for birds. And the two land-

scapes are under different management

regimes. Ruby Lake NWR is managed

by the US Fish and Wildlife Service,

and the mission there is specifically to

provide habitat for birds. Franklin Lake,

in contrast, is part Wildlife Management

Area (state owned), part Bureau of Land

Management, part private, and one of

the private land parcels has an easement

held by The Nature Conservancy.

Franklin Lake IBA receives water

primarily from the Franklin River, and

the size of the marshes varies according

to available runoff. In wet years tens

of thousands of waterbirds use the site.

In the last great water year for Frank-

lin Lake–1997–Ruby Lakeʼs biologist

counted 57,905 ducks and geese repre-

senting 12 species on Franklin Lake. In

the following year, as waters receded,

400 Sandhill Cranes and 1,000

American Avocets were at the site,

while 300 White-faced Ibis bred there.

Throughout this period of abundance,

Forsterʼs, Caspian, and Black Terns

used the wetland as foraging andbreeding habitat. In drier years the site

still retains noteworthy bird qualities,

though they certainly do not match

the wet years in stature. Greater Sage

Grouse occur on the upland portion of

system. Sage Sparrows are a common

breeding species. A few Bald Eagles

winter here. Ruby Valley has a remark-

able population of Long-billed Curlews,

some of which undoubtedly use the

Franklin Lake area as pastures emerge

from beneath shallow playa waters.

When it comes to conservation,Franklin Lake is among the more secure

IBAs in the state. The primary con-

straint on Franklin Lake is the availabil-

ity of water. Essentially, the system is at

nature s̓ mercy and awaits years of high

snow pack and runoff from the adjacent

Ruby Mountains. Certainly as we look

to the future securing additional conser-

vation easements or outright purchases

from willing landowners would be

helpful, but with periodic flooding it is

highly unlikely the site will ever sprout

ranchettes.

This year is shaping up to be a good

one for birds at Franklin Lake. Snow-

pack in the Ruby Mountains is deeper

than usual. As you read this I hope

that April has been warm enough to

send some of that runoff all the way to

the end of the Franklin River and into

Franklin Lake.

Getting There

Public access to Franklin Lake is

provided along Ruby Valley Road, justnorth of Ruby Wash Road and the Ruby

Lake NWR. The turnoff is signed and

the short road ends at a turnaround that

overlooks the lowlands of Franklin

Lake. If a visit to the site proves to be

a bust, Ruby Lake NWR is a very short

drive to the south and is always worth

a visit.

The Franklin Lake

Important Bird Area

is just north of the

Ruby Lake National

Wildlife Refuge in

Elko County.



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Saturday, May 7

Swan Lake Cleanup, North Reno

Trip Leader: Bob Goodman (775) 972-

7848, [email protected]

Time: 8 a.m.Place: McDonaldʼs parking lot off the

Lemmon Valley Exit on Hwy 395 north

of Reno

Bring sturdy footwear and gloves. If you

have waterproof, tall boots or waders,

these will be helpful working to remove

trash from the stream. As the time draws

near, we will know more about the extent

of pickup trucks needed for transporting

trash to the dumpster. As always for this

glamorous work, bring a smile.

Saturday, May 14

Silver Saddle Ranch, Carson City

Trip Leader: Nancy Bish (775) 884-1570

or [email protected]

Time: 7:30 a.m.

Place: Silver Saddle Ranch Parking Lot,

located on Carson River Road, off East

5th Street

Sponsors: Lahontan Audubon Society

and Friends of Silver Saddle Ranch

Plan to spend the morning exploring the

ranch for birds and learning a little about

the ranch history. Habitat at the ranch

includes sagebrush, agricultural lands and

a riparian corridor adjacent to the Carson

River. The variety of habitat allows

for a diverse number of bird species

to be observed at the ranch. All levels

of birders are welcome and beginning

birders are encouraged to attend. Please

contact Nancy Bish (775) 884-1570 or

[email protected] to register or for more

information.

Saturday, June 25

North Tahoe, Tahoe City

Trip Leader: Richard Carlson (530) 581-

0624, [email protected]

Time: 8 a.m.

Place: Gatekeeperʼs Museum parking

lot at the “Y” in Tahoe City. From Reno,

drive west on I-80 and turn south on Hwy

89 to Tahoe City. Cross Fanny Bridge to

the gatekeeperʼs parking lot

Trip of moderate difficulty with

occasional rough trails. Birds that may

be seen on this trip include high Sierra

specialties such as Blue Grouse, Pine

Grosbeak, Black-backed Woodpecker,Williamsonʼs and Red-breasted

Sapsucker, Western Tanager, Lazuli

Bunting and many warbler species. Bring

a bag lunch and weʼll bird until mid-

afternoon. Other attractions: incredible

wildflower displays. Please contact

Richard Carlson to reserve your spot.

Saturday-Sunday, June 25-26

Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge

Workday and Field Trip

Project Leader: Mike Goddard (775)423-5128/[email protected]

Place: Camp at Catnip Reservoir. Meet

Friday afternoon.

Purpose: Saturday Fence Removal with

potluck and Sunday Refuge Tour

Please contact Mike Goddard for

information. The work will be done on

Saturday. Sunday will be a tour with

Brian Day, Sheldon NWR Manager. He

has three old spring enclosures to remove

on Round Mountain, just to the north of

Catnip Reservoir. Bring work gloves,sunscreen, plenty of liquid refreshment,

fence tools, wire cutters, buckets (for

scrap wire and clips), and long bladed

screwdrivers if you have them. Plan on

eating lunch in the field on Saturday.

Make sure your spare tire is up to

snuff as we have encountered flat tires

in the past on our adventures at Sheldon.

Fill your gas tank at either Cedarville,

Alturas, or Gerlach. There is no gas

available in Denio anymore. I heartily

recommend caravanning and having a

Nevada Gazeteer in hand.Bring your own main course and a side

dish to share for the Saturday pot luck.

We will camp at Catnip Reservoir. It is

a beautiful place with lots of space to

camp, but a vault toilet and a group BBQ

grill are the only amenities. Bring your

own potable water and insect repellent

too. Mike and Cindy Goddard plan to

arrive Friday afternoon to greet early

arrivals.

Directions are available on the LAS

web site. For more information contact

Mike Goddard

SWAN LAKE FIELD TRIP REPORT

April 2

What a day to shake off that cabin fever.

Over fifty birders quickly overwhelmed

the parking lot at McDonaldʼs in

Lemmon Valley, so we had to split

them into two groups for the morning s̓

viewing of Swan Lake. Ray Nelson

“volunteered” to take one and I the other

for a beautiful morning of birding the

ponds and interpretative area.

Of note was a small group of visitors

from Connecticut and their friends fromVentura, CA, who joined us after seeing

the notice in the paper.

It was apparent that spring is upon us,

as each group spotted some 44 species

for the morning. Hundreds of American

Avocets, very few Black-necked Stilts,

and a variety of other shorebirds are once

again using Swan Lake as an important

stopover during migration. Making their

spring appearance were Eared Grebes,

a flock seen out in the whitetop dotting

the large expanse of the playa, a Turkey

Vulture scouting the entire area, someGreater Yellowlegs, Least Sandpipers,

Long-billed Dowitchers, and a lone

Snipe.

Some Barn Swallows were working

over the ponds, and for my group, a

Savannah Sparrow gave us quite a long

viewing right at the edge of the pond in

front of us...a longer distanced view for

Rayʼs group.

At the end of Pompe Lane, a pair of

Ruby-crowned Kinglets gave a long

performance in the lone tree there, with

the maleʼs bright red crown easily visible

A small flock of American Avocets

displayed just a few feet from the

pavement.

Both groups ended near noon, as the

predicted winds started to bear down all

across the marsh.

Bob Goodman

Trip Leader

FIELD TRIPS Diane Wong, Field Trip Chair 775-324-0762

[email protected]



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CONSERVATION CORNER

There s̓ a deadly bird killer out there in

Nevada. It s̓ been out there for many

years, quietly killing thousands, perhaps

hundreds of thousands of birds. You

may have walked or driven by them not

realizing the devastating impact they

have had and continue to have on ouravifauna. I am referring, of course, to

uncapped mine claim markers. Over the

past two decades more light has been

shed on the incredible impact these

seemingly innocuous plastic tubes are

having on Nevadaʼs rich bird life. A

recent report by Pete Bradley and Jason

Williams, non-game biologists with the

Department of Wildlife (submitted for

publication) reveals the sheer magnitude

of the problem over the past 20 years.

The issue came to light in 1983 when

the Toiyabe Chapter of the Sierra Clubfound mountain bluebirds flying into

and becoming trapped inside hollow,

plastic mine claim markers. In 1986

work began to document the extent of

bird mortality. Bradley and Williams

found 914 dead birds of 33 species, re-

moved from 7,058 abandoned posts that

had been removed from 16 project areas

across approximately 34,400 hectares

of public land in northeastern Nevada.

From these numbers, Bradley and Wil-

liams derived a mortality rate of 12.9%(13 individuals/100 posts) for the Great

Basin. This percentage is a result of

dividing the total number of dead birds

by the total number of posts removed.

The number of dead birds found in a

post varied from zero up to 14 identifi-

able birds. The real impact, of course,

is when you extrapolate this mortality

rate to the hundreds of thousands and

possibly millions of uncapped mine

claim markers that currently exist. Cur-

rent estimates of remaining uncapped

posts in Nevada are somewhere between200,000 and 4,000,000. According to

Bradley and Williams, using these two

estimates and a 12.9% mortality rate, we

are looking at potential bird mortality

between 26,000 and 516,000 respec-

tively.

Their research showed native cav-

ity-nesting songbirds, birds of prey and

woodpeckers made up 87% of identified

bird mortalities. Four species, the Moun-

tain Bluebird, American Kestrel, North-

ern Flicker, and a non-cavity-nester, the

Loggerhead Shrike made up 58%, 11%,

8% and 7% of identified bird mortalities,

respectively. They also looked at mortal-

ity of birds in posts located in differenthabitats. While they did find a positive

correlation to proximity of pinyon-ju-

niper woodlands, dead birds were also

found several kilometers away from pin-

ion and juniper trees in sagebrush steppe

and salt desert shrub habitats.

According to Bradley and Williams, in

1993 new legislation made it illegal for

mining/exploration companies to place

hollow, plastic, uncapped mine claim

markers on Nevadaʼs public lands. (NRS

517.030). LAS provided testimony at

the Assembly hearing for this bill. There

was also an informational bulletin written

in 1993 by BLM giving mining/explora-

tion companies a 2.5 year “grace period”

to either replace or securely cap hol-

low posts. The Department of Wildlife

even made attempts at contacting mine

claim holders and offering help to cap

or remove the markers with minimal re-

sponse. The US Forest Service and BLM

have written letters that contain release

language to allow the removal of aban-

doned claim markers on public lands andsome progress has been made as evident

in Bradley and Williamʼs research. Re-

cently, however, the question of legality

of removing invalid mine claim markers

or at a minimum placing them on their

side has, once again, been called into

question. Itʼs clear that uncapped mine

claim markers are invalid according to

Nevada law, and there is clear viola-

tion of the International Migratory Bird

Treaty Act as well. The question remains

as to whether or not the authorities will

begin to enforce these laws. I think,ideally, we would like to work coopera-

tively with agencies and organizations

to remove this threat. A great volunteer

effort has been underway, but much more

is needed, not only in terms of volunteer

effort, but in securing funding as well.

As recently as this past Easter weekend,

three hearty souls went out and removed

390 posts in southern Nevada, 81 % of

which had dead birds. We can continue to

chip away at this issue; meanwhile posts

will continue to fill up with dead birds.

Or, we can seek out those in positions of

authority and insist that this issue be ad-

dressed. Too much time has passed since

this problem first surfaced and little hasbeen done about it. As of this issue of The

Pelican, Iʼve had little time to research

this as in depth as I would have liked.

However, I felt it was important to ad-

dress the issue sooner rather than later. I

will continue to seek out information and

clarification and pass it along to our con-

cerned membership. If youʼd like more

information on this in the mean time, you

may contact Pete Bradley in Elko at 775-

777-2307, or me at 775-813-3494.

Ali Chaney

Conservation Co-Chair

Information for this article has been obtained from

the following:

Bradley, P.V. and J.A. Williams. 2004. “Cavity-nest-

ing bird and bee mortality in abandoned hollow

plastic mine claim markers in the Great Basin.”

Submitted for publication.

WEB MASTER CHANGES

Due to other demanding commitments,

Web Master Tim Herrick has had to

step down. Tim served as LAS Web

Master starting in September 2003. Tim

enhanced the visual appeal of the site

as well as attending to many technical

details and updates. Tim was always a

friendly and positive resource. Thank you

very much, Tim. We will miss you.

We are fortunate to have Jim Lytle

volunteer to become the new Web Mas-ter. Nancy Bish has volunteered to be

his back-up. Both Jim and Nancy have

experience with web sites. We are yet

again quite fortunate. Thank you, Jim and

Nancy.



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LAS SALESPrice Postage TOTAL

A Birding Guide to Reno and Beyond (2000) $10 $1.50 _____Published by Lahontan Audobon Society

Nevada Birding Map (price includes postage) $ 4 _____

TOTAL ORDER _____

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ADDRESS ____________________________________________________________

CITY _________________________ STATE ________ ZIP CODE ____________

PHONE _______________________________________________________________

Make checks payable to Lahontan Audubon Society and mail with this form toLAS, Attn: LAS Sales, P.O. Box 2304, Reno, NV 89505

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION/DONATION FORM

Lahontan Audubon Society Membership (all funds remain in the community):

We invite your membership. Please complete and mail this form with payment.

❏Individual/Family - $20/year ❏Full Time Student/Senior (over 62) - $15/year

Members receive The Pelican newsletter. Make check payable to Lahontan Audubon Society and mail to:

Lahontan Audobon Society, Attn: Membership, P.O. Box 2304, Reno, NV 89505

Donations: Please select one and make check payable to Lahontan Audubon Society. Mail to P.O. Box 2304,

Reno NV 89505

❏Ruby-crowned Kinglet - $10

❏Mountain Bluebird - $20

❏American Avocet - $50

❏American White Pelican - $100 ❏Golden Eagle - $500 or more

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PHONE _______________________________________________________________ May/June 2005 issue



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LAHONTAN AUDUBON SOCIETY

OFFICERS President Karen Kish [email protected] 841-1180

Vice President Alan Gubanich [email protected] 784-6652

Treasurer Dave Straley [email protected] 832-9222

Recording Secretary Jane Burnham [email protected] 677-4178

TRUSTEES Seat #1 to 2006 Carol Conkey [email protected] 849-3768

Seat #2 to 2005 Judy Kretzer [email protected] 826-6891

Seat #3 to 2006 Ali Chaney [email protected] 813-3494

Seat #4 to 2005 Jim Lytle [email protected] 577-9641

Seat #5 to 2006 Ray Nelson [email protected] 849-0312

Seat #6 to 2007 Nancy Bish [email protected] 884-1570

Seat #7 to 2007 Bonnie Wagner [email protected] 829-6311

IBA Director Don McIvor [email protected] 882-2597

COMMITTEE Activity/Program Alan Gubanich [email protected] 784-6652

CHAIRS Birding Classes Bob Goodman [email protected] 972-7848

Communications Karen Kish [email protected] 841-1180Conservation Ali Chaney [email protected] 813-3494

Education Ray Nelson [email protected] 849-0312

Field Trips Diane Wong [email protected] 324-0762

Fundraising Dave Straley [email protected] 832-9222

Hospitality Vacant

LAS Sales Vacant

Membership Judy Kretzer [email protected] 826-6891

Volunteers Bonnie Wagner [email protected] 829-6311

PUBLICATION AND The Pelican Editor Mike Greenan [email protected] 445-3238

INFORMATION The Pelican Distribution Connie Douglas [email protected] 425-1305

“Birds in Town” Alan Wallace [email protected] 786-5755

LAS Info Line Jim Lytle 324-BIRD

Web Master Jim Lytle [email protected] 577-9641

Postmaster: Please send change of

address to The Pelican, P.O. Box

2304, Reno, NV 89505.

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